Ticket-holder for application to blocks for textile piece goods.



No. 629,560. Patented July 25,1899.

H. H-AINE.

TICKET HOLDER FORAPPLICATION TU BLOCKS FUR TEXTILE PIECE GOODS.

(Application fild Jain. 19, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HAROLD HAINE, on EASTBOURNE, ENGLAND.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR APPLICATION TO BLOCKS FOR TEXTILE PIECE GOODSSPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 629,560, dated. July25, 1899. Application filed January 19, 1899. Serial No. 702,696. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HAROLD HAINE, a sub=' j ect of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Eastbourne, England, have invented an Im provedTicket-Holder for Application to the Blocks for Textile Piece Goods, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide anovel,simple,efficient,and economical sheetmetal ticket-holderparticularly designed to be slipped over and to securely grip the edgeof a board on which cloth or other textile material is wound or wrapped.To accomplish this object my invention consists in the device possessingthe characteristic features of construction hereinafter described andclaimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 of the said drawings is a view of the said appliance orticket-holder, showing a ticket afiixed thereto, that part of theticketholder on which the ticket'is secured and which is hereinaftertermed the tablet beingforemost. Fig. 2 is an edge view of theticket-holder. taken at right angles to that shown in Fig. 2; and Fig.4: is a side View of a portion of a piece block or board having theticket-holder applied to it.

Referring to the said figures,a is the tablet.

b is an ordinary paper ticket, which is secured on the outer face of thetablet by means of gum or other suitable adhesive matter.

0 c are spring-tongues (which I term main spring-tongues) projectingfrom the longer sides of the tablet and bent substantially at rightangles to the tablet and then converging or bent toward each other untilthey nearly meet at their free ends, which are farthest from the tablet,and d dare other springtongues (which I term supplementary finto thespace between the main tongues, so

that the extremities of the supplementary tongues lie quite near thetablet, while the extremities of the converging main spring- Fig.3 is aView of the same,

tongues are at some distance therefrom. By

this peculiar construction and arrangement the supplementaryspring-tongues d grip opposite sides of the cloth-board quite near theedge thereof, while the main spring-tongues grip opposite sides of thecloth-board at some distance from said edge, whereby a double grip isobtained that steadies the ticket-holder as a whole and firmly andsecurely holds it in correct position without liability of slipping offor becoming displaced.

Fig. 4 illustrates the manner in which the ticket-holder is held inplace on a piece board or block by the bearing of the gripping-tongueson the opposite faces of the piece board or block, which is marked e inthe said figure.

I make the said ticket-holders from sheetsteel and harden and temper thesteel after fashioning it as required, and I also make them from onepiece of metal by cutting the same and bending the cut portions to theshape illustrated in the accompanying drawlngs.

The ticket-holder described and shown is held in position solely by thefrictional contact of the two pairs of reversely-converging elasticgripping-tongues; but this is due to the peculiar construction andarrangement of the sets of reversely-converging elastic tongues. This.is a different thing from providing the ticket-holder with pointed spursor teeth to penetrate the cloth-board.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A ticket-holder for frictionally gripping the edge of a cloth-board,consisting of a fiat ticket-holdin g tablet or plate having two mainspring gripping-tongues converging in a direction away from the tabletor plate and centrally slitted longitudinally to form two supplementaryspring gripping-tongues which converge toward the said tablet or platein the space between the main spring-tongues, said ticket-holder beingheld in position'solely by the frictional contact of the two sets of re-Versely-converging spring-tongues with the cloth-board, substantially asand for the purposes described.

' HAROLD HAINE. [L. s.]

Witnesses FRANCIS BATES, FREDRK. WIOKHAM.

